Jacques Derrida was a controversial philosopher whose writing could be fiendishly difficult to read. Nevertheless he had many followers. Here Pete Salmon, author of a recent biography of Derrida, manages to give a clear account of what Derrida meant by deconstruction.
This episode was sponsored by St John's College. For more information about the college go to www.sjc.edu/podcast
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Daniel Everett on the Nature of Languag
Cynthia Freeland on Portraits
Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy
Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save
Hillel Steiner on Exploitation
Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation
Susan Wolf on Meaning in Life
Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism
Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism
David Chalmers on the Singularity
Raymond Geuss on Realism in Political Philosophy
Robert Stern on Hegel on Dialectic
Ned Block on Consciousness
Susan Neiman on Morality in the 21st Century
Galen Strawson on the Sense of Self
Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros
Robert B. Talisse on Pragmatism
Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Health
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